Journal article
Scope conditions of economic voting: The Danish exception?
Electoral studies, Vol.34, pp.16-26
06/2014
DOI: 10.1016/j.electstud.2013.09.010
Abstract
In country after country, economic voting analysts have found that voters react sociotropically rather than egotropically. However, in a series of papers Nannestad and Paldam have found the exact opposite result for Danish voters – a result which challenges the scope conditions of economic voting. Changing only a few minor aspects of Nannestad and Paldam’s design, including the introduction of a standard sociotropic item in their models, though, reproduces the standard result: strong sociotropic and weak egotropic effects. The challenging results thus seem to be methodological artefacts; a finding that strengthens confidence in the generalizability of the basic mechanism of economic voting. Voters are not necessarily altruists, however. Sociotropic voting may be driven by both egoistic and altruistic considerations.
•Previous research has found ego- rather than sociotropic economic voting to dominate in Denmark.•This provides a challenge to the scope conditions of economic voting.•Through re-analyzing the original data as well as a larger data pool, we demonstrate that the challenging results are methodological artefacts.•This does not mean, however, that all voters are altruists.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Scope conditions of economic voting: The Danish exception?
- Creators
- Rune Stubager - Aarhus University, Bartholins Allé 7, 8000 Aarhus C, DenmarkNiels W Botterill - Aarhus University, Bartholins Allé 7, 8000 Aarhus C, DenmarkMichael S Lewis-Beck - University of Iowa, Department of Political Science, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USARichard Nadeau - University of Montreal, Department of Political Science, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3C 3J7
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Electoral studies, Vol.34, pp.16-26
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.electstud.2013.09.010
- ISSN
- 0261-3794
- eISSN
- 1873-6890
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/2014
- Academic Unit
- Political Science
- Record Identifier
- 9984025658502771
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